Practical Strategies for Performance Optimization of the Enhanced Gen-Probe Amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct Test

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1547-1551

  Sloutsky, A ^a   Han, L L ^a   Werner, B G ^a  

^a Massachusetts State Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPEI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE;

CULTURE MEDIA; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM GORDONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; MYCOBACTERIUM KANSASII; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX; MYCOBACTERIUM XENOPI; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 5044221137     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.4.1547-1551.2004     Document Type: Article

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